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As a professional urban designer and partner of the Planning and Design Firm Space Between Design Studio, I am a trained urbanist who specializes in creating walkable urban developments and analyzing existing places to find the barriers preventing livable, walkable urbanism. I can be reached at patrick [at] spacebtw.com

For: Architecture as discipline - for the autonomous exercise of professional judgement and the defence of integrity

Against: Architecture as discipline - the instrumentalisation of design for therapeutic or interventionist objectives

For: Building more - in the knowledge that we can, and should, always rebuild later

Against: A culture in decline that questions whether we should be building at all

For now, I'll just let each of these speak for themselves. But, it sounds like something I might have written in 3rd year design school then I realized the world is far more complex than a hunk of play-do. To me this is emblematic of the end-game that architecture as a cult backed itself into.

Manifestos in general just scare the bejeebus outta me. Who writes a manifesto other than the self-important indoctrinaries?

Walkably Quotable

"The American love affair with the car...it's an awful lot like Stockholm Syndrome." ~ Me.In the Sixties the philosopher Ivan Illich showed that the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.

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In the Sixties, the philosopher Ivan Illich showedthat the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.